Hey I got mentioned! Glad to be apart of this amazing grassroots project. I believe the city really needs this to happen! Thanks for putting Christian on!
I love the reap what you sow analogy; might be the most beautiful way I've heard it explained. If you plant flowers, you'll get flowers. If you plant roads, you get cars and traffic.
Fantastic. If this is a success it'll hopefully be a call for more citizen led projects. What I love about this is the angles that are pitched to appeal to different people. In this case transit riders and drivers. These things aren't zero sum.
I've thought since the name UTA would assume they should take care of all the transit in Utah, I thought they should run a few intercity trains to Moab (for mainly Arches), Cedar City (for mainly Zion), and Trenton-with a separate local division that convenes in Brigham City-with overlap between Clearfield and Ogden-with the former being a big trip generator due to a military presence. These service could prove a test of Sunday service, even if only 1-2 round trips per service since the city's amusement park (Lagoon) is open on Sundays-although a pedestrian tunnel under I-15 straight into the parking lot would really solidify that
Imagine how much more trackage they could build with this money though… or better yet bollards to congestion price this area since they already have a decent passenger rail network. Then maybe they could earmark the money raised from that for grade separations for the freight tracks. 😊
You are falling into the zero sum game. This isnt a zero sum game, we can have money for the Rio Grande Plan and we can have money for more trackage. Right now we already have a decent commuter network. We need a good safe station for people to want to come to, then you build the rail lines.
Very nice episode! Always cool to see the origins of great ideas and some of the nitty gritty of how they get planned and implemented!
Hey I got mentioned! Glad to be apart of this amazing grassroots project. I believe the city really needs this to happen! Thanks for putting Christian on!
I love the reap what you sow analogy; might be the most beautiful way I've heard it explained. If you plant flowers, you'll get flowers. If you plant roads, you get cars and traffic.
Fantastic. If this is a success it'll hopefully be a call for more citizen led projects.
What I love about this is the angles that are pitched to appeal to different people. In this case transit riders and drivers. These things aren't zero sum.
I've thought since the name UTA would assume they should take care of all the transit in Utah, I thought they should run a few intercity trains to Moab (for mainly Arches), Cedar City (for mainly Zion), and Trenton-with a separate local division that convenes in Brigham City-with overlap between Clearfield and Ogden-with the former being a big trip generator due to a military presence. These service could prove a test of Sunday service, even if only 1-2 round trips per service since the city's amusement park (Lagoon) is open on Sundays-although a pedestrian tunnel under I-15 straight into the parking lot would really solidify that
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Imagine how much more trackage they could build with this money though… or better yet bollards to congestion price this area since they already have a decent passenger rail network. Then maybe they could earmark the money raised from that for grade separations for the freight tracks. 😊
You are falling into the zero sum game. This isnt a zero sum game, we can have money for the Rio Grande Plan and we can have money for more trackage. Right now we already have a decent commuter network. We need a good safe station for people to want to come to, then you build the rail lines.